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so while people people across, e.g.,latin america will routinely try to keep as much of their savings as they can manage in dollars because their local currencies are subject to hyperinflation, none of this is a concern for even the poorest usamerican, because the dollar is comparatively stable and everything in their lives is priced and costed in dollars. which obviously does not mean 'all usamericans are rich' or 'usamericans never suffer from inflation or economic instability' or even 'the usamerican financial system doesn't systemically disenfranchise Black and native communities' -- just that imperialism is baked into every aspect of daily life for people who live underneath or within it.

I'm not saying there isn't a relative "labor aristocracy" for certain sections of the USian working class, but dollarization doesn't really benefit USians who make less than a living wage. It doesn't automatically guarantee high standards of living and actually contributes to the decay in real wage.

the idea that usamericans are somehow uniquely or primarily victims of hunger is also just not backed up by any data i can find. very unsurprisingly, it is a much bigger problem in africa, south asia, and latin america [x][x]. but like nobody is denying that the benefits of imperialism are not a lot of use to someone when they are dying because they can't afford insulin -- but that fact doesn't mean it's wrong to point out that usameicans as a class do in fact experience the benefits of imperialism. arguing that it does is just as specious as the old MRA 'wow, so you're saying a HOMELESS MAN has MALE PRIVILEGE?' routine.

The part of ur post that irked me was where u said "no matter how much brutal poverty and oppression you face, you benefit from imperial core privilege." I'm not trying to say "not all USians," I'm trying to say that working class (and in particular colonized) people in the belly of the beast have little benefit in upholding the imperialist world system, and similar incentives to overthrow it as the imperial periphery. I'm saying we also have workers with nothing to lose but their chains, up the de-dollarization. I'm also disputing the idea that you can broadly categorize USians (even "illegal" immigrants paid less than minimum wage, but still in dollars) as a distinct "class," particularly in a way that obscures actual class relations and contradictions (if Gaddafi succeeded in setting up the Dinar, would this mean Libyans would constitute a "privileged class" due to the assured stability of a currency backed by gold?). Immigrants working on berry farms in the south being paid starvation wages aren't exactly relieved that their suffering is denominated in dollars. Being paid in a dollars doesn't create a distinct class. The entire working class in the US's borders isn't one big labor aristocracy solely because we are paid dollars. The "exorbitant privilege" of the US dollar doesn't justify this post in the "check ur privilege" genre. In the age of neoliberalism and "financialization" of the US economy, the strength of the dollar has progressively meant less and less for USian living standards (and honestly, less and less in preventing currency or inflation or banking crises, as 2023 has shown us).

so while people people across, e.g.,latin america will routinely try to keep as much of their savings as they can manage in dollars because their local currencies are subject to hyperinflation, none of this is a concern for even the poorest usamerican, because the dollar is comparatively stable and everything in their lives is priced and costed in dollars. which obviously does not mean 'all usamericans are rich' or 'usamericans never suffer from inflation or economic instability' or even 'the usamerican financial system doesn't systemically disenfranchise Black and native communities' -- just that imperialism is baked into every aspect of daily life for people who live underneath or within it.

I'm not saying there isn't a relative "labor aristocracy" for certain sections of the USian working class, but dollarization doesn't really benefit USians who make less than a living wage. It doesn't automatically guarantee high standards of living and actually contributes to the decay in real wage.

there is no fantasy of uncomplicated and meritorious ethnic violence that is neatly separable from the historical context those fantasies are produced in. that's just the way it is. genuinely, i feel compelled to ask--not because i want to hear the answer, but because i want you and others to think about this--why is this a fantasy you’re so desperate to salvage?